Week in pictures: 1 - 7 October 2022 - BBC News

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Sweden's Svante Pääbo for his work on human evolution. His celebrations included being thrown into the water by co-workers, at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

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UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband, Hugh O'Leary, wave to applauding delegates as they leave the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. In her speech Ms Truss promised to get the country through "stormy days".

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US President Joe Biden hugs a woman as he tours areas affected by Hurricane Ian in Florida. At least 108 people were killed by the category-four hurricane. Mr Biden said Florida could take years to recover.

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Members of the Colla Castellera Xiquets de Reus team form their "castell", or human tower, in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Each "casteller" stands on the shoulders of the one below up to a height of between four and 10 levels.

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The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after being detained by Iran's morality police sparked unprecedented protests across the country and elsewhere. Here a protester in Istanbul, Turkey, cuts her hair in solidarity with those protesting in Iran.

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Lesotho Independent Electoral Commission officials at a school in Maseru, one of the voting venues for this week's parliamentary elections. Fifty parties are contesting the poll in the kingdom, with little sign that it will end years of political gridlock.

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The Princess of Wales mixed a cocktail while visiting the Trademarket in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She and the Prince of Wales met officials from charities and community organisations during their visit.

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The Virginia creeper foliage on the Tu Hwnt i'r Bont (Beyond the Bridge) tearoom in Llanrwst, Conwy, north Wales, has changed colour from green to red. It was built as a home in 1480 but has been a tearoom for more than 50 years.

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A resident of the Ukrainian city of Bila Tserkva, south-west of Kyiv, stands on a bicycle to inspect a destroyed building following an air strike by Russian forces.

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A southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) in the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Madryn, in Argentina. Despite the recent deaths of at least 13 of the creatures, authorities have recorded more than 1,400 whales in the gulfs of Nuevo and San Jose, the largest number in more than 50 years.